Bourdais slams Perez for 'dirty trick' tactics in last GP
Dec.15 - Former F1 driver Sebastien Bourdais has slammed Red Bull and Sergio Perez for interfering in the world championship fight last Sunday.
Red Bull and new world champion Max Verstappen hailed Mexican Perez's efforts in supporting the team by deliberately holding up Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in Abu Dhabi.
"That was BS," Bourdais, a 42-year-old Indycar driver who raced for Red Bull's junior team Toro Rosso before he was ousted in mid 2009, said.
"I can't begin to understand how Perez can be happy with himself and how people applaud him for what he did," the Frenchman added.
Bourdais says Perez used "every dirty trick" to try to "impede Hamilton".
"Zero sportsmanship - from the whole team really," he explained.
Bourdais even rejected criticism that he is biased against the energy drink company by insisting that it's "totally unrelated" and he was "never a Red Bull guy" anyway.
"They completely sacrificed Perez's race to put him in that position. Purposely losing seconds per lap to impede."
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Bourdais, talented as he may be, conveniently forgets that F1 is a team sport... perhaps that may be why he never fit in at Red Bull/Toro Rosso and was promptly dismissed? And how many Indycar and IMSA teams has he driven for since, never seeming to last more than a season or two? Hmmm...
What is he on about how many times have we seen team mates help their team mates fighting for title Bottas with Hamilton Massa with Alonso been happening for years and it was fantastic defending from Perez old tyres slower car kept car on track and beautifully was a great battle too respectful driving nothing dirty either
Certainly is a team event. Max, Perez and Masi had a great last race working as one.
Except until the last lap restart call Masi and the stewards have been consistently favoring Baby Lewie over Max all year long, especially at Silverstone (Ham should've been dq'd and sat out a race for that life-threateningly dangerous move) and at Saudi too. So Masi's decision to let the cars between Max and Sir Baby thru to give the fans around the globe a thrilling last lap of the season can only be viewed as some partial measure of justice.
I can only describe you as an ignoramus just struggling to keep my comments relatively polite.Certainly know nothing of value from this F1 season.
screw politeness - apart from insulting me, you offer no actual argument to counter my observations and opinions, you it seems it is you who "know nothing of value," eh?
where was he at monza 2018 when bottas slowed kimi?
its obvious that he hates redbull, he was trash driver, that redbull dropped and no one wanted to take...